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Diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate in the United States. According to the CDC’s (Centers for Disease Control) National Diabetes Statistics Report for 2017 cases of diabetes have risen to an estimated 30.3 million.

How many people have diabetes?

• 30.3 million people, or 9.4% of the U.S. population, have diabetes.
• Diabetes impacts all social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds.

New Cases of Diabetes in Adults and Children

• In 2015, an estimated 1.5 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed among U.S. adults aged 18 years or older.
• This includes approximately 193,000 children and adolescents younger than age 20 years.

Incidence of Diabetes Complications

• Diabetes can affect many parts of the body and is associated with serious complications, such as heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, among other conditions, and can lead to lower limb amputations.

Hospitalizations

• In 2014, a total of 7.2 million hospital discharges were reported with diabetes as any listed diagnosis among U.S. adults aged 18 years or older.
• 1.5 million discharges were for major cardiovascular diseases, including 400,000 for ischemic heart disease and 251,000 for stroke.
• 108,000 discharges were for lower extremity amputation.
• 168,000 discharges were for diabetic ketoacidosis.

Emergency Department Visits

• In 2014, a total of 14.2 million emergency department visits were reported with diabetes as any listed diagnosis among adults aged 18 years or older.
• 245,000 visits were for hypoglycemia (severe low blood sugar)
• 207,000 were for hyperglycemic crisis (severe high blood sugar.

Kidney Disease

• Among U.S. adults aged 20 years or older with diagnosed diabetes, the estimated prevalence
  of kidney disease was 36.5% during 2011-2012
• In 2014, a total of 52,159 people developed end-stage renal disease with diabetes as the
  primary cause.

Diabetes is a deadly disease.

• Diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the United States in 2015 based on the 79,535 death certificates in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death.
• Diabetes was listed as any cause of death on 252,806 death certificates in 2015.

The Cost of Diabetes

• In 2012, the total estimated cost of diagnosed diabetes in the U.S. was $245 billion.
• Average medical expenditures for people with diagnosed diabetes were about $13,700 per year.
• Average medical expenditures among people with diagnosed diabetes were about 2.3 times higher than expenditures for people without diabetes.
  *Retrieved from: https://www.diabetesresearch.org/diabetes-statistics